Description: "Vivid with a Mesozoic bestiary" (Tom Holland), this on-the-ground, page-turning narrative weaves together the chance discovery of dinosaurs and the rise of the secular age.
Brief description: Michael Taylor is an intellectual and political historian of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. His work has been shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing and the Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize. He lives in Manchester, England.
Review Quotes: Michael Taylor offers an elegantly written, compellingly readable account of the 'culture war between the guardians of orthodoxy and the agents of change.' . . . The result, Mr. Taylor writes in his fine book, was a decadeslong 'culture war . . . over humanity itself.'-- "Wall Street Journal"